Description of organisation

The house can be found in the suburb of Budapest, in the 18th district.
The foundation’s aim is to help those persons who get to grips with alcohol problems and being homeless. In Budapest, there are a great number of homeless people, by guess 20.000 persons. That is because it is needed a place to house the homeless people into.
The foundation supplies four assignments:
1. Daily drop-in center
The indigents can dwell this place from 7.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m., we provide food, sandwiches, tea, and ability to wash and to have a bath. We can provide our daily service up to 120-130 people daily this number can be extended 160 during a crisis situation. We provide daily food for 450 clients.
We share every morning breakfast and short worship together from 7.30. This also helps to bring people closer and get to know each other better.
2. Night shelters
Usually, we can provide housing for 35 men, high quality. In winter, in a crisis situation, the number of beds can be increased by 6. Most of the clients in the night shelter stay longer than one night. We provide cleaning facilities, well-equipped rooms are provided, lockable cupboards. The aim of the shelter is to socially reintegrate people without homes. We organize many programs to achieve this goal: excursions, theatre, cinema, garden outings, and celebration of national and religious vocations. We also organize so-called ‘healing conferences’ five times a year in Verőce for alcohol and drug addict homeless people. Every year there is a summer camp for the clients’ children.
3. Club for Anonym Alcoholics
We organize talks in groups one afternoon each week for the rehabilitated members and for enquirers. Enquirers who are not housed in the night shelter may also come, so the club welcomes
everyone. There is also worship every Wednesday for people who need healing from their addiction.
4. Street social work
The part of this work is the social work on the streets, which quests and attends the homeless people in the 18th district. The aim of street social work is to help those people, groups and individuals who are staying on the street and who are distrustful with institutional care, with the primary aim to save their lives and integrate them into the society. Street social service works in the framework of the daily drop-in center
We also support the clients in administration at social offices (ID and other written proceedings, application for social benefit etc.) We also provide clothes, and baggage storage, post address
establishment, etc. At this moment there are 437 clients in the district we are supporting. We do provide our services in the summertime from 8.00-20.00, in the winter time from 8.00-22.00. We offer the following services:
To search and find homeless people and delegate them to the proper institutes, to get help.
To give objective information and to talk to them. During winter time we provide warm tea, blankets, and basic food.

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Educational difficulties
• Social obstacles